CTOs starting the new year with a new job

As salespeople, many of you are always on the hunt for someone new to do business with. As Hoover’s customers, you’ve come to the right place. We’ve got 100 million contacts in our comprehensive information database. Many of you have asked for high-level information technology executives such as Chief Information Officer and Chief Technology Officer. Here are some new hires who are probably setting up their new offices right now:

Vicki Barbur was named Chief Technical Officer of Concurrent Technologies Corporation (CTC), a nonprofit that provides IT consulting services to mostly federal agencies. Barbur, who has a PhD in physics from the University of London and an MBA from Dartmouth, comes to CTC from Cardinal Health. She joins Chief Information Officer George Appley.

Bridget Burke is the new Chief Information Officer of HID Global, a company that makes contactless cards and readers for security systems, such as the badge I swipe to enter my building at work. She will also be the company’s Chief Security Officer, responsible for overseeing HID Global’s security policy compliance. She joins Chief Technology Officer Selva Selvaratnam.

Bobby Chowdhury joins publisher Rodale as the company’s first dedicated Chief Technology Officer. Chowdhury knows the ins and outs of a newsroom as much as he does the IT department, having worked at Condé Nast and Scripps.

Frankie Rios is the new Vice President of Information Security & Compliance at Atlanta-based Global Net Access, LLC (doing business as GNAX Health), a company that provides IT services to the health care industry. Rios joins CIO Janakan Rajendran.

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The Hershey Company, global maker of Reese’s, Twizzlers, Kit Kat, and other confections, named Patricia Little as its new SVP and CFO, effective March 16. Little is succeeding David Tacka, who retired from Hershey at the end of 2014. Mostly recently CFO at staffing services giant Kelly Services, Little will step down March 13. Kelly Services’ controller, Olivier Thirot, will fill in as Kelly’s acting CFO until a successor is found.

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In an update last week, D&B Editor Christian Hudspeth explained why “simply put, business has been good” for Lennar Corporation over the past five years. The homebuilder, one of the largest in the US, has benefitted from affordable home prices, low interest rates, and a strengthening economy. Its new home deliveries jumped some 15% in fiscal 2014, while the average sales prices rose 12%. Lennar has seen revenue increase from some $3.1 billion in fiscal 2010 to $7.8 billion in fiscal 2014. Follow Christian on Twitter.

First Research Trend of the Week

Build-outs of faster 4G mobile networks in emerging markets are driving growth in the telecommunications equipment industry. While construction of 4G networks is mostly complete in the US, Japan, and South Korea, the technology is just coming to much of Eastern Europe, Latin America, and Africa, according to Gartner. As a result, worldwide wireless telecom equipment spending is expected to rise 5 percent this year, according to Bernstein Research. For more trends, please see our Telecommunications Equipment Manufacturing industry profile.